Well, as long as those starving artists up there get paid well...

This was my thought as well. The article pretty much said; A told B that C told D that E said “X”.

Mark Darcy: character in Bridget Jones

Oh good, I thought I was the only one.

Also vegan, and have never heard of these people.

I seem to remember from when Jezebel reported on this the first time two years ago that he was 18 then, so not a minor.

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When I get drunk I may say something that is insensitive or not 100% PC, but people don’t suddenly become anti-semites or racists or homophobes when they get drunk or high. If you do that, you’re already an asshole, being sober just covered it up.

This looks so familiar and I can’t place it. Where is this from?

I loved Miranda. I was Miranda even as a teen watching that show. She was the only one I liked pretty much. (As an adult I grew to appreciate Samantha quite a lot, but I’m still Miranda.)

This man looks strangely like my father.

Everyday probably. I think that’s why he’s so obsessed with the looks of other people, those words he uses against them are what he deep down knows are what he thinks about himself.

Oh yes, LeGuin is definitely worthy of more attention. She wrote this essay once called The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, which if you can find it is definitely worth a read. Aside from her excellent fiction writing that is.

The Swedish Academy only decides on the prize for literature, not the other ones.

Margaret Atwood, although I suspect it will never happen.

Alfred Nobel didn’t write that in English, he wrote it in Swedish. The Swedish word for mankind is far more gender neutral, just as humanity is more gender neutral. This is translation failure not intention failure.

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Thank you! That’s really interesting that the gap is smaller for POC.

I always wondered how the gender gap statistics hold when looking only at one race/ethnicity at a time.

I think it’s for people who want to feel like they are intellectuals.